Today I have a special post for you! On the one hand I am not going to show you a card today, but a little box that fits a small treat for someone very nice and on the other hand I can share with you some fantastic news: I am going to be the guest designer over at the "Challenge Up Your Life" blog for the next two months. ;o)))) I am really very excited and hope you'll like my first submission!

First I needed to make a plan for my box. I wanted to insert 4 chocolate bars called "Merci" to it, so I measured out how much space they needed. The paper for this box needs to be cut to 5 1/4" by 10 3/4" and then you need to score them like you can see in the following picture. Attention: You only need to score where you see the dotted line - the line with the measurements is no score line.

Now the paper needs to become a box ;o) If you would like to have a window in your box, like I did, now is the time to cut it out of the square on the right. In order to have the acorn leaf at the right space in both the box and the patterned paper I glued the designer paper down temporarily and sent both through my Big Shot. Before I put the box together I glued the acetate between the box and the patterned paper, added the paper for the lid and also stencilled in the acorns. I am saying this here, because the box you see in the picture is actaully the second one I made, because I had forgotten the acetate and also the paper on the front.

All that was left to do now was to glue down the sentiment strip "just a little something", colour in an area for the fox something to stand on and glue him down. The fox is made from a die cut which I have coloured using my Copic markers. I die cut the body three times to give it more thickness and make it more sturdy.